Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
@centernorthwest.bsky.social
Dedicated to advancing historical scholarship on the North American West with an emphasis on the Pacific Northwest and its connections to other places. Located in the Department of History at the University of Washington. https://linktr.ee/CSPNUW
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New issue out now! "Jalando Parejo y Cambiando el Noroeste" (Shoulder to Shoulder, Changing the Pacific Northwest) spotlights Latinos/Latinas in the Pacific Northwest. Part 1 of this special 2-part issue includes articles on voting rights, school reform, and Quinceanera traditions.
New issue out now! "Jalando Parejo y Cambiando el Noroeste" (Shoulder to Shoulder, Changing the Pacific Northwest) spotlights Latinos/Latinas in the Pacific Northwest. Part 1 of this special 2-part issue includes articles on voting rights, school reform, and Quinceanera traditions.
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
New issue out now! "Jalando Parejo y Cambiando el Noroeste" (Shoulder to Shoulder, Changing the Pacific Northwest) spotlights Latinos/Latinas in the Pacific Northwest. Part 1 of this special 2-part issue includes articles on voting rights, school reform, and Quinceanera traditions.
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University of Washington ablaze with color this afternoon when the sun popped out! Drumheller Fountain framed by The Mountain, from Red Square: 😎
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 AM
University of Washington ablaze with color this afternoon when the sun popped out! Drumheller Fountain framed by The Mountain, from Red Square: 😎
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Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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October 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
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The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions!
Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize
cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize
cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions!
Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize
cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize
cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
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Sharing some exciting news
#AlaskaNativeResilience: Voices from World War II (my book!) published by @uwapress.uw.edu received the Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on military history of the frontier and western North America!
#AKhistory, #Nativehistory, & #militarization
#AlaskaNativeResilience: Voices from World War II (my book!) published by @uwapress.uw.edu received the Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on military history of the frontier and western North America!
#AKhistory, #Nativehistory, & #militarization
October 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sharing some exciting news
#AlaskaNativeResilience: Voices from World War II (my book!) published by @uwapress.uw.edu received the Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on military history of the frontier and western North America!
#AKhistory, #Nativehistory, & #militarization
#AlaskaNativeResilience: Voices from World War II (my book!) published by @uwapress.uw.edu received the Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on military history of the frontier and western North America!
#AKhistory, #Nativehistory, & #militarization
Thank you to the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild for having us, it was a great day of discussion and locally sourced historical thinking.
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thank you to the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild for having us, it was a great day of discussion and locally sourced historical thinking.
New permanent exhibition opening at the Washington State Historical Society Museum: This Is Native Land Contemporary
teachings from Tribal traditions, history, and culture. Check out www.washingtonhistory.org/exhibit/this... for more info.
#PNWHistory #Tacoma #WAHistory
teachings from Tribal traditions, history, and culture. Check out www.washingtonhistory.org/exhibit/this... for more info.
#PNWHistory #Tacoma #WAHistory
October 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New permanent exhibition opening at the Washington State Historical Society Museum: This Is Native Land Contemporary
teachings from Tribal traditions, history, and culture. Check out www.washingtonhistory.org/exhibit/this... for more info.
#PNWHistory #Tacoma #WAHistory
teachings from Tribal traditions, history, and culture. Check out www.washingtonhistory.org/exhibit/this... for more info.
#PNWHistory #Tacoma #WAHistory
Thank you so much to everyone that came out last week to hear @collthrush.bsky.social talk on his newest @uwapress.uw.edu title Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific. And special thanks to UW History and UW Libraries for their support.
October 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thank you so much to everyone that came out last week to hear @collthrush.bsky.social talk on his newest @uwapress.uw.edu title Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific. And special thanks to UW History and UW Libraries for their support.
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so happy to have this conversation with ever brilliant chrystel oloukoï for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Jen Rose Smith, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic - @dukepress.bsky.social, May 2025
www.dukeupress.edu/ice-geograph...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Chrystel Oloukoi.
newbooksnetwork.com/ice-geograph...
www.dukeupress.edu/ice-geograph...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Chrystel Oloukoi.
newbooksnetwork.com/ice-geograph...
Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
www.dukeupress.edu
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
so happy to have this conversation with ever brilliant chrystel oloukoï for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Don't miss this event sponsored by us, the UW Department of History, @uwapress.uw.edu and the University of Washington Libraries.
Tomorrow!
Thursday Oct 2nd 2025 at 3:30pm
Petersen Room of Allen Library North
Tomorrow!
Thursday Oct 2nd 2025 at 3:30pm
Petersen Room of Allen Library North
Join us for a talk by @collthrush.bsky.social, author of the recently published Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.
Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room
Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room
October 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Don't miss this event sponsored by us, the UW Department of History, @uwapress.uw.edu and the University of Washington Libraries.
Tomorrow!
Thursday Oct 2nd 2025 at 3:30pm
Petersen Room of Allen Library North
Tomorrow!
Thursday Oct 2nd 2025 at 3:30pm
Petersen Room of Allen Library North
Hopefully no one had any important research they were hoping to do soon!
October 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hopefully no one had any important research they were hoping to do soon!
The 2025 Pacific Northwest Historians Guild History Conference is coming up next month!
pnwhistorians.org/guild/index....
#HistoryConference #PNWHistory
pnwhistorians.org/guild/index....
#HistoryConference #PNWHistory
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The 2025 Pacific Northwest Historians Guild History Conference is coming up next month!
pnwhistorians.org/guild/index....
#HistoryConference #PNWHistory
pnwhistorians.org/guild/index....
#HistoryConference #PNWHistory
Don't miss the Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians' third annual "mini" conference in Tacoma, WA on October 10-12, 2025.
sahmdr.org/conference
#HistoricalSociety #HistoricalConference #PNW
sahmdr.org/conference
#HistoricalSociety #HistoricalConference #PNW
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Don't miss the Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians' third annual "mini" conference in Tacoma, WA on October 10-12, 2025.
sahmdr.org/conference
#HistoricalSociety #HistoricalConference #PNW
sahmdr.org/conference
#HistoricalSociety #HistoricalConference #PNW
Join us for a talk by @collthrush.bsky.social, author of the recently published Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.
Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room
Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Join us for a talk by @collthrush.bsky.social, author of the recently published Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.
Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room
Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room
Did you know that you can subscribe to the Pacific Northwest Quarterly directly on our website😉?! Link in bio!
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August 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Did you know that you can subscribe to the Pacific Northwest Quarterly directly on our website😉?! Link in bio!
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#OnThisDay in 1989, tribal canoes participating in the Paddle to Seattle arrived at Golden Gardens Park. historylink.org/File/20269
July 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#OnThisDay in 1989, tribal canoes participating in the Paddle to Seattle arrived at Golden Gardens Park. historylink.org/File/20269
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New at PB: In the latest in our Public Thinker series, Gabriel N. Rosenberg interviews Bathsheba Demuth (@brdemuth.bsky.social) about her book "Floating Coast," which narrates the Arctic not as an edge, but as a center.
Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic
“There was an interdependence that was very clear in the animal relationships in the Arctic.”
www.publicbooks.org
July 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
New at PB: In the latest in our Public Thinker series, Gabriel N. Rosenberg interviews Bathsheba Demuth (@brdemuth.bsky.social) about her book "Floating Coast," which narrates the Arctic not as an edge, but as a center.
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Four years ago today, a heat wave broiled Western Washington, shattering Seattle and regional temperature records. historylink.org/File/21266
June 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Four years ago today, a heat wave broiled Western Washington, shattering Seattle and regional temperature records. historylink.org/File/21266
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#OnThisDay in 1981, an avalanche killed 11 climbers as they ascended Mount Rainier. historylink.org/File/10796
June 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
#OnThisDay in 1981, an avalanche killed 11 climbers as they ascended Mount Rainier. historylink.org/File/10796
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A Seattle walking tour of Pioneer Square’s LGBTQ+ History: historylink.tours/tour/pioneer... #PrideMonth
June 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A Seattle walking tour of Pioneer Square’s LGBTQ+ History: historylink.tours/tour/pioneer... #PrideMonth
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Gregor Craigie spoke with author Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa and contributor xwməθkwəỷəm Debbie Sparrow about their new book, The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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June 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Gregor Craigie spoke with author Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa and contributor xwməθkwəỷəm Debbie Sparrow about their new book, The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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#OnThisDay in 1889, the Great Seattle Fire destroyed much of the city's commercial core and waterfront. historylink.org/file/21090
June 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#OnThisDay in 1889, the Great Seattle Fire destroyed much of the city's commercial core and waterfront. historylink.org/file/21090
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The US Pacific Northwest leg of the Wrecked book tour is now set. Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Bellingham, Beaverton, Astoria, and Coos Bay. Details at collthrush.com.
April 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The US Pacific Northwest leg of the Wrecked book tour is now set. Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Bellingham, Beaverton, Astoria, and Coos Bay. Details at collthrush.com.
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6/3 at 7:30 PM | With Joshua L. Reid (citizen of the Snohomish Indian Nation), historian and author @collthrush.bsky.social shares tales of shipwrecks in the Northwest and what they reveal about colonization.
Presented in partnership with @uwapress.bsky.social
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Presented in partnership with @uwapress.bsky.social
🎟 Get tickets: buff.ly/qXe99Et
May 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
6/3 at 7:30 PM | With Joshua L. Reid (citizen of the Snohomish Indian Nation), historian and author @collthrush.bsky.social shares tales of shipwrecks in the Northwest and what they reveal about colonization.
Presented in partnership with @uwapress.bsky.social
🎟 Get tickets: buff.ly/qXe99Et
Presented in partnership with @uwapress.bsky.social
🎟 Get tickets: buff.ly/qXe99Et
Kimberly Jensen on the process of researching and writing "Oregon’s Others". Nathan Bradshaw and Michael Allen on the history of the Ellensburg tree saddle across the American West. Ken Mather examines Joel Palmer’s trips to BC, and Lionel Youst compares oral and written records in Coos Bay, Oregon.
May 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Kimberly Jensen on the process of researching and writing "Oregon’s Others". Nathan Bradshaw and Michael Allen on the history of the Ellensburg tree saddle across the American West. Ken Mather examines Joel Palmer’s trips to BC, and Lionel Youst compares oral and written records in Coos Bay, Oregon.